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: a usually lightweight platform for the foot that is designed to enable a person to walk on soft snow without sinking and that typically consists of an oblong frame crossed with leather thongs or synthetic material
Examples of snowshoe in a Sentence
Verb
We snowshoed through the woods.
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Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
Trudging in snowshoes alongside Stevens is Darryl Lucien, an attorney for the 40 Acre group who has acted as a liaison between the nonprofit and officials in local and state government.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
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Noun
Our guide, Marlène Galletti, who greeted us with snowshoes, hiking poles, headlamps, and a Blue Healer ready to rumble.
—Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
Trudging in snowshoes alongside Stevens is Darryl Lucien, an attorney for the 40 Acre group who has acted as a liaison between the nonprofit and officials in local and state government.
—Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024
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“Snowshoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowshoe. Accessed 30 May. 2024.
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snowshoe
1 of 2 noun
snow·shoe
-ˌshü 
: a light frame (as of wood or aluminum) strung with a net that is attached to the foot to prevent sinking in soft snow
snowshoe
2 of 2 verb
snowshoed; snowshoeing
: to travel on snowshoes
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